Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

To put a framework on it of the key issues and challenges that arise, one of the points around scaling the procurement competition properly is that, on the other side of it, if there is not a competition, how do we tackle the issue of somebody being locked out of the market because of favouritism? We have to have competitive procurement, and we have to scale it and have a competition that is sensible for nature of the product. That kind of analysis is exactly what the OGP was designed-----